nan ##zh ##ao ' s mounted armies ventured deep into what is today burma and may have been behind the founding of the medieval city of pagan and the pagan dynasty itself . between the newly conquered mongol territory and pagan were a wide swat ##h of border ##lands stretching from present @ - @ day de ##hong , bao ##shan and lin ##can ##g prefecture ##s in yunnan as well as the wa and pal ##au ##ng regions ( presumably in present @ - @ day northern shan state ) , which pagan and dali had both claimed and exercised overlapping spheres of influence . then as now , the border ##lands mostly consist of forbid ##ding terrain ##s of high mountain ranges . = = =
nanzhao's mounted armies ventured deep into what is today burma and may have been behind the founding of the medieval city of pagan and the pagan dynasty itself. between the newly conquered mongol territory and pagan were a wide swath of borderlands stretching from present @ - @ day dehong, baoshan and lincang prefectures in yunnan as well as the wa and palaung regions ( presumably in present @ - @ day northern shan state ), which pagan and dali had both claimed and exercised overlapping spheres of influence. then as now, the borderlands mostly consist of forbidding terrains of high mountain ranges. = = =